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Fitzgerald under pressure over O’Sullivan claims

Niamh Lyons

May 18 2016, 12:01am, The Times

Maurice McCabe alleged malpractice within the garda force in the 2000sNIALL CARSON/PA

Frances Fitzgerald has come under intense pressure to examine claims that the garda commissioner’s legal team was prepared to tell an inquiry into alleged malpractice that the whistleblower was motivated by “malice”.

The tanaiste was responding to questions on the O’Higgins Commission report in the Dail for the first time yesterday.

The O’Higgins report centred on allegations made by Maurice McCabe, a garda sergeant. It concluded that there were serious deficiencies in policing in the Cavan-Monaghan region in the 2000s but no evidence of corruption or malpractice.

Micheál Martin, the Fianna Fail leader, asked the justice minister yesterday whether Nóirín O’Sullivan, the garda commissioner, had clarified reports made public last week in the Irish Examiner newspaper.

The report alleged that senior counsel, on the instruction…

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